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itsMITH, M. D., or ALEXANDERSVILLE, 01110.

Letters .Patent No, 74,160, dated February 4, 1868.

IMPROVED CARPBTIIOLDER.

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'ro'ALL WHOM Ifr MAY coNcERN:

Be itrknown that I, F. SMITIVI, M. D., of Alexandersville, in the count-y of Montgomery, and Stateof Ohio, have invented a new and improved Carpet-Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referenceY beinghad to the accompanying drawings,`forming part of this specification., Y

This invention relates t'o a new and useful device for holding carpets upon thetloors, whereby the same are more firmly held against the mop-board, and more easily, at any time, removed; It consists ofawasher, chambercd' out upon one .face of the same,to receive a circular projection on one side of a circular plate; said projection being out of the centre of said plate; said washer being secured to themop-board by screws; and

said plate being also held upon said washer by a screw passing through the centre of said projection, whereby an eccentric motion is given to said plate,l which, when upon the edge of a carpet under the same, by turning said plate,'will hold said carpet firmly upon the floor against the mop-board. In the accompanying plate of drawings-.- i A Figure 1 is a rear view of my invention.

Fig'ure 2 is a central vertical section of' the same.

Figure 3, a front view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the circular plate; B isthe circular projection on the hack side of the same; C is the washer; a are screws, by means ofwhich the washer C is secured to the mop-board F of a roomg' a' is a screw,1by means of which the plate A is secured to the washer Ci D is the carpet; E is' the door; Fis the mop-b'oard.

The washer C is a circular metallicfdisk, having a plane surface on one side, and is cbambered out on the other side, so as to receive the projection-on the plate A. Saidwasher C may be of any -convenient dia'meter, as off the diameter of one inch, and of such thickness as to prevent the plate A, whenturning-in thesamc, from rubbing against the mop-board F, and is secured to the mop-board, at any convenient place thereon, by the screws a, as shown, and so as'that, when'the plateA is turned in one position, the edge of the same will nearly touch the floor. The plate Av is a circular disk, made of metal, or ofgutta prcha, or other suitablematerial, having upon one side a circular projecton,'the centre of'which is one side 'ot the centre of the plate A, so as, when in position in the'chamber of the washer C, the centre of the projection beingthe centre of rotationutho plate A will, when rotated, have an eccentric motion, or so as that, by turning the plate A in thel washer C, the edge of the same will be nearer to the door in one part'of the rotation than in another part of the rotation, and so, also, by turning the plate A in either direction, as to bind upon a carpet drawn up to the mop-board, un'der the edge of the same, and so as, by turning the same in the opposite directon, the carpet may be easily removed. The diameter of the projection onthe plate A `is a little less., than the diameter of the washer C.

The plate A is held in position on thewasher C by a screw, a', as shown. The projection is ot' suiicient depth only so as to be contained securely in the chamber ofthe washer C, in which the s ame rotates. i The operation is such that, by turning the plate A, so as that the edge ofthe same will be, as far as'possible, removed from the floor E, and drawing the edge of a carpet, D, under the same, by turningthe plate A in either direction, the carpet will be iirmlyheld upon the ioor, and, by reversing the same, the carpet will be released, and may be easily taken u p.

Any number of the above-described carpet-holders may be so secured at any lconvenient places on the mopboard, according to the number of places in which it may be necessary to tix the carpet to thc loor.

Constructed 'as above described, it constitutes a neat and convenient carpet-holder, the advantage of' which is that neither the carpety nor the mop-boardis injured by the same in securing the carpet to theoor. I

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by [letters Patent, is A carpet-holder, composed of a washer, C, and eccentric plate A, said plate A rotating in a chamber in a washer, C, secured to any mop-board, substantially ats-shown and described, and for the purposes set forth. DR. F. SMITH. Witnesses:

JAMES TURNER, W. HAL SIGMAN. 

